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Do you wish people to think well of you? Don’t speak well of yourself.

Blaise Pascal

We must learn our limits. We are all something, but none of us are everything.
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Human Limitation Wisdom
There is a God shaped vacuum in the heart of every man which cannot be filled by any created thing, but only by God, the Creator, made known through Jesus.
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Creation God Man Spiritual
Silence. All human unhappiness comes from not knowing how to stay quietly in a room.
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Happiness Human Quiet Silence
Man’s greatness lies in his power of thought.
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Greatness Lying Man Power
Love knows no limit to its endurance, no end to its trust, no fading of its hope; it can outlast anything. Love still stands when all else has fallen.
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Endurance Fade Limitation
Without Jesus Christ man must be in vice and misery with Jesus Christ man is free from vice and misery in Him is all our virtue and all our happiness. Apart from Him there is but vice, misery, darkness, death, despair.
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Darkness Death Men Vice Victory
There is enough light for those who only desire to see, and enough obscurity for those who have a contrary disposition.
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Desire Enough Light See
If a man is not made for God, why is he happy only in God?
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Faith God Happiness Men
Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary.
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Extraordinary Greatness Ordinary Wisdom
Evil is easy, and has infinite forms.
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Easy Evil Infinite
All men’s miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.
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Inspirational Man Misery Peace
Human beings must be known to be loved; but Divine beings must be loved to be known.
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Divine Human Love Religion
The supreme function of reason is to show man that some things are beyond reason.
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Beyond Logic Men Reason
The strength of a man’s virtue should not be measured by his special exertions, but by his habitual acts.
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Act Inspirational Strength Wisdom
We never love a person, but only qualities.
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Deep Love Person Quality
All the maxims have been written. It only remains to put them into practice.
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